Impact at the heart of everything we do
What drives us is the passionate belief in people benefiting from UCL’s world-changing technologies. This lies at the very heart of everything we do. From more effective cancer treatments and rare diseases to AI solutions for lowering carbon emissions - we endeavour to make sure the work we carry out has a positive impact on the world around us.
In commercialising selected technologies and research from UCL’s academics and researchers, we help take innovations from the lab to the market, nurturing businesses and protecting and licensing ideas that are leading the way in healthcare, society, and infrastructure. We take pride in working with UCL’s academic innovators, connecting their groundbreaking research to real-world solutions.
Our end-to-end commercialisation ecosystem supports UCL academics to bring their ideas to market for real-world impact, changing lives for the better while encouraging a virtuous circle in which revenue can flow back to the university to support further research.
Our commitment to societal impact
We aim to make a positive social impact for people and their communities.
We do this by commercialising promising ideas that can transform outcomes for people – whether that’s high tech medical research to benefit those living with chronic and rare health conditions or novel ideas for helping communities tackle social challenges.
We also create ‘social ventures’ – businesses which are established by UCL’s growing number of social entrepreneurs with the express aim of making noticeable impact on the communities around them. We recognise that impact is determined by more than just profit. That’s why we’re actively working with projects that take steps towards addressing society’s issues.
Our commitment to innovations for environmental impact
UCLB spinouts making an environmental impact
Bramble Energy has developed a unique printed circuit board fuel cell, providing a cost-effective production method for manufacturing hydrogen fuel cells.
Carbon Re has a singular mission to reduce global emissions at the Gigatonne scale. It’s utilizing AI to enable energy intensive industries such as the cement industry to reduce emissions and costs.
Accelerating the transition to net Zero
We help commercialise and grow technologies and – businesses that are helping solve some of the world’s most challenging and complex environmental challenges.
We’re proud to work with pioneers in UCL who are applying cutting edge technologies and research to accelerate the transition to net zero. By helping support those businesses to grow, refine and apply their technologies at scale, we are helping achieve much-needed impact here and now – as well as those technologies that will be essential for a fossil fuel-free energy future.
MATcelerate Zero
We’re proud to be part of the MATcelerate Zero initiative, which brings together leading materials research from UK universities, together with industry. The initiative, backed by the Henry Royce Institute, was set up with a view to accelerating the growth and development of sustainably focused technologies and research.
Governance
Robust governance is a key foundation for UCLB, as you’d expect from a technology commercialisation business dealing with highly sensitive information. We invest a lot of time and resource in ensuring we adhere to the highest professional and ethical standards in all that we do.
We also strive to be the very best in our sector – and our policies and procedures are informed by independent best practice guidelines, such as the UK government’s Independent Review of University Spin-out Companies.
Our commitment to championing Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and staff wellbeing.
We are a people business and we are absolutely committed to ensuring UCLB is culturally and practically a diverse, welcoming, and wellbeing-driven organisation.
We believe that our diversity is our strength, and we support Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in all its forms, with a continuous-improvement ethos driven by our staff EDI group.
Our people are paramount, and we strive to ensure the wellbeing of every one of our team at every level in the organisation. From flexible and blended working through to bonus schemes, a great working environment and a healthy work/life balance, we are committed to attracting and retaining the best talent in the business, by being a great place to work.
